Point-and-click adventure games recommendations

[Csihar]

I vaguely recall this being done before but can't hurt to have another one.

There are of course the well-known classics like:

Broken Sword 1 & 2
Discworld
Gabriel Knight series
Grim Fandango
King's Quest series
The Longest Journey
Monkey Island series
Space Quest series

but some of the lesser known recommendations would be good.

Some great ones that I've played the past years:

Blackwell Legacy series
Deponia series
The Dig
Gemini Rue
Kathy Rain
The Last Express
Machinarium
Primordia
Sanitarium
Shardlight
Syberia 1 & 2
The Wolf Among Us

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Csihar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I vaguely recall this being done before but can't hurt to have another one.

There are of course the well-known classics like:

Broken Sword 1 & 2
Discworld
Gabriel Knight series
Grim Fandango
King's Quest series
The Longest Journey
Monkey Island series
Space Quest series

but some of the lesser known recommendations would be good.

Some great ones that I've played the past years:

Blackwell Legacy series
Deponia series
The Dig
Gemini Rue
Kathy Rain
The Last Express
Machinarium
Primordia
Sanitarium
Shardlight
Syberia 1 & 2
The Wolf Among Us

I didn't see Hero Quest (which was renamed Quest For Glory after they got sued), which is very similar to other Sierra adventure games except that it has a slight RPG element. There's also the Leisure Suit Larry series, which are also just like other Sierra games except that it has "grown-up" content (although the VGA-rendered nudity is pretty laughable now).

Other classics I didn't see: Day of the Tentacle (technically a sequel to Maniac Mansion, and you can play Maniac Mansion inside it), Sam and Max, and Full Throttle. All were made by Lucas Arts, or Lucas Games, or whatever they used to call themselves, and all three are a ton of fun.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Quest For Glory

This x 1000.

There's 5 QFG games. The first and second were originally 16-color games where you had to type in commands to talk or perform actions, but they were both remade to the 256-color, typical point-and-click stuff ... the first by Sierra itself and the second as a fan project. 3 and 4 are a bit newer. 5 is much newer (but still ancient), features voice acting and whatnot. You can import your character you play 1 with all the way through 5.

They're pure gold.

There's also a free, fan-made game with a female protagonist that's more recent, very much in the vein of QFG and with spectacular voice acting and writing, called Heroine's Quest. Norse theme, great.

Like loramin said, there's a moderate RPG element in these games, where you have stats that increase as you use them. They have pretty limited effects on the gameplay though... maybe ocassionally you won't be able to climb up a tree until you spend 5 minutes practicing your climbing skill, or you'll have a hard time with fighting tougher monsters without having spent time in fights raising your skills. The games have classes, fighter, thief, mage, and sometimes paladin. Different classes have different skills, though at character creation you can do stuff like give a fighter sneaking or give a thief spellcasting so you can dabble into other stuff. In general there are multiple solutions to problems you run into in the game, and each class has one that it excels at of course, so you can get quite a bit of replay value out of seeing how the different classes get through the game. You'll never see a thieves guild with a non-thief, you'll never get extra dialogue and quests from a paladin NPC if you're not a paladin, you get to earn and craft extra spells and items as a wizard, etc etc.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's also a free, fan-made game with a female protagonist that's more recent, very much in the vein of QFG and with spectacular voice acting and writing, called Heroine's Quest. Norse theme, great.

I never heard about this, but now I'm going to have to check it out.

[Csihar]

Need to get away from the known classics and get more unknowns!

But if you want to add to the classics:

Beneath a Steel Sky
Blade Runner
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Legend of Kyrandia series
Loom
Simon the Sorcerer series

Discworld is pretty well known but Discworld: Noir is less known and absolutely fantastic.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Csihar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Loom

Forgot that one even existed! I remember it being so revolutionary at the time: an adventure game where you can't die!

[Izmael]

Originally Posted by Csihar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Loom

This one was amazing.

[Daywolf]

I liked Blade Runner. A little buggy, but was worth the play. King's Quest was good. Hero Quest. Ultima series. UO is based on point and click adventure. You could look into RPG Maker, it's fun to play around with, even go beyond the Eastern Cartoon style if you like.

[Swish]

Lure of the Temptress
Legend of Kyrandia
Wily Beamish


A few I played growing up in addition to a lot of this list

[Baler]

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So many great games already listed.. Figured I'd throw an oddball.

some more...
Ripper
Stasis
The 7th Guest
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Fable
Dragonsphere
Tex Murphy games
Companions of Xanth
Flight of the Amazon Queen
The Book of Unwritten
Whispered Worlds
The Neverhood

Ps. I've played every single game listed on this thread so far. Many in my youth, such classics.
Also going to plug a Let's Player on YT who's done videos for nearly everything listed GameHorder